﻿<p>The text literal with extent is a text literal with the additional explicit
information of the planar extent. An alignment attribute defines how the text
box is aligned to the placement and how it may expand if additional lines of
text need to be added.</p>
<p>Figure 2 shows the use of planar extent and box alignment to position the
text string</p>
<table style="margin:10px">
<tr>
<td><img src="../../../figures/ifctextliteralwithextent_fig1.png" width="300" height=
"170" alt="IfcTextLiteralWithExtent_Fig1.png 8,1 KB"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p class="figure">Figure 2 &mdash; Text literal with extent and alignment</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>The planar extent defines the box model within which the text is placed.
Padding maybe defined in the text style that offsets the text from the box to
its inside.</p>
<blockquote class="note">NOTE&nbsp; Entity adapted from
<strong>text_literal_with_extent</strong> defined in ISO10303-46</blockquote>
<blockquote class="history">HISTORY&nbsp; New entity in IFC2x2.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="change-ifc2x3">IFC2x3 CHANGE &nbsp;The
<em>IfcTextLiteralWithExtent</em> has been changed by adding
<em>BoxAlignment</em>.</blockquote>